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Berman felt that including the original cast of the previous Star Trek films felt like a " good way to pass the baton " to the next series.
In the initial draft of the screenplay, the original series cast appeared in a prologue, and Guinan served as the bridge between the two generations.
The Enterprise-D's end also appeared — the saucer crash had first been proposed as the cliffhanger for Moore's original seventh-season finale " All Good Things ...", which eventually became the series finale.
Kirk's death initially developed in Braga, Moore and Berman's story sessions.
Moore recalled that " we wanted to aim high, do something different and big ... We knew we had to have a strong Picard story arc, so what are the profound things in a man's life he has to face?
Mortality tops the list.
" After the idea of killing off a Next Generation cast member was vetoed, someone suggested that Kirk die instead.
Moore recalled that " we all sorta looked around and said, ' That might be it.
' " The studio and Shatner himself had few concerns about the plot point.

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